Burglar

TURTLE LAKE, Wis. -- What was he supposed to do?It's not a question so much as a challenge. A challenge to anyone who thinks Lenny Miller was wrong to booby-trap his cabin with a shotgun.Three times in eight months, the cabin had been burglarized.His hunting rifles were stolen. His fishing gear, too. And his tackle box. His new chain saw and his leaf blower and his Christmas present, a fillet knife still in its box. His boat had been vandalized. His outhouse trashed. His all-terrain vehicle had been torn apart.

Burglars who were confronted by a Pasadena resident Monday night fired a shot into a wall before fleeing, Anne Arundel County police said. The resident told police he, his wife and his grandson were asleep in the home in the 1800 block of Poplar Ridge Road when they heard noises inside the house around 11:40 p.m. The man left his bedroom to investigate, yelled that he was armed with a shotgun, and the burglars fired a shot into a wall then ran...

Someone opened a window at Annapolis Middle School and took a container of candy, Annapolis police said Thursday morning. Police said the burglary and theft of a container of licorice from a window sill took place between last Wednesday and this past Wednesday. The window had been unlocked, according to police. andrea.siegel@baltsun.com

Anne Arundel County Police are searching for a man they say has posed as a worker for a local water company in order to burglarize homes. Police responded Friday morning to the 200 block of Hammonds Ferry Road in Linthicum where a woman said that she was approached by man who said he worked for a local water company and was investigating a water leak. He followed her into her home, and a few minutes after he left, the victim noticed some of her personal property was missing, police said in a release.

An accused Crownsville burglar returned to the scene of the crime Thursday to apologize to his victim and was arrested, Anne Arundel County police said Friday. Officers responded to a call for a burglary in progress in the 500 block of Saw Mill Lane in Crownsville around 3 p.m. The homeowner told police that as she was arriving home, she saw two men leaving with items from the house, but once they saw her, they dropped many of the items and ran away, police said. The homeowner told police that she recognized one of the burglars as Philip Fox, 20, but said she did not know the other burglar.

A Joppa resident surprised a man and a woman burglarizing his home Sunday, and a neighbor then chased the burglar, who dropped what had been taken from the home before getting away, the Harford County Sheriff's Office reported. Sheriff's deputies responded to the home in the 2600 block of Greenspring Avenue West at 12:08 p.m. Sunday for a report of breaking and entering in progress. Upon arrival, they met the homeowner, Walter Verbus, 72, who told them he came home and interrupted a man burglarizing the home, according to a media release from Eddie Hopkins, spokesman for the sheriff's office.

David Irick had yet to finish fully installing his video surveillance system, so he was pleasantly surprised when his cameras captured a man breaking into his Howard County house earlier this month. The 60-year-old was further astonished when he watched the footage. The bespectacled suspect — dressed in a collared shirt with rolled up sleeves and a red tie — hardly fit the image of a typical burglar. "When I saw the tie, I thought that someone else had come to the house that day as well," Irick said, assuming that the man was a salesman or was taking a survey.

A suspected Roland Park burglar plummeted to his death from a third floor balcony after being spotted by the owner of the home he was apparently robbing, police said. Police responded to a call for a burglary in progress on the 4500 block of Roland Avenue shortly after noon on Monday. Returning home, the resident had seen the man on the balcony at the back of his house, police said. The 55-year-old suspected burglar attempted to slide over the balcony and down the outside of the house, but lost his footing and fell 26 feet onto a concrete walkway, police said.

A man was injured early Sunday morning by a man during an attempted burglary in Fountain Green just east of Bel Air, police said. Harford County sheriff's deputies were called at about 6:15 a.m. Sunday by a man who said another man broke into his home in the 1800 block of Glendale Lane in the Villages of Thomas Run neighborhood behind C. Milton Wright High School, according to Lt. Joe Van Seeters of the Harford County Sheriff's Office. The man who lived there said his wife, who was in the living area of the home, told him she heard noises coming from the basement area.

Anne Arundel County Police are searching for a man they say has posed as a worker for a local water company in order to burglarize homes. Police responded Friday morning to the 200 block of Hammonds Ferry Road in Linthicum where a woman said that she was approached by man who said he worked for a local water company and was investigating a water leak. He followed her into her home, and a few minutes after he left, the victim noticed some of her personal property was missing, police said in a release.

A Baltimore city school is hoping to recover technology and cash after it was buglarized late Sunday night - the third break-in the school had experienced in about a week. City school police are investigating the break-in at Govans Elementary School, which officials said has a silent alarm but doesn't have cameras and was also burglarized twice last week, as recently as Friday. Govans is a high performing neighborhood school - and one of the poorest with about 90 percent of students qualifying for free-and-reduced priced meals - and was recently recognized by the Maryland State Department of Education as one of the state's Title I Highest Performing "Reward Schools" for its academic achievement.

The following is compiled from police reports. It is the Baltimore Messenger's policy to include descriptions only when there is enough information to make identification possible. If you have any information about these crimes, call the Baltimore City Police Department's Northern District at 410-396-2455. Belvedere Avenue (East) 1000 block, between 4:30 and 6 a.m. April 27. Two laptops, two cellphones stolen from residence. Entry gained through unlocked front window.

A burglar stole a truck and used it to take 2,142 cases of cognac last Sunday from a business in Dundalk, Baltimore County Police said. At around 5 a.m. March 16, someone entered a fenced-in lot in the 7000 block of Quad Avenue through an unlocked employee entrance and took the truck, according to a police report. The person then hooked up the truck to a chassis that was carrying a cargo container, which was filled with the cases of cognac. The burglar fled the scene westbound on Quad Avenue.

Anne Arundel County police say 11 apartments in an Odenton building - which had been condemned following a serious fire on March 7 - were burglarized this week. Property managers and residents discovered the burglaries in the complex on Peaceful Way in Seven Oaks on Thursday. Police believe the burglaries took place between 6 p.m. Wednesday and 11 a.m. Thursday. Police said several firearms had been among the items taken during the burglaries. On Friday, police said one victim had seven guns stolen - but officers canvassing an area not far from where the burglaries took place recovered six of the firearms.

The following is compiled from local police reports. Our policy is to include descriptions when there is enough information to make identification possible. If you have any information about these crimes, call the Wilkens Police Station at 410-887-0872. Edmondson Avenue, 6100 block, 6:10 p.m. Dec. 19. Attempt to steal TV from house while resident was home failed. Holmes Avenue, unit block, 8:26 p.m. Dec. 16. Door handle broken during attempt to break into house through rear patio door.

The following is compiled from local police reports. Our policy is to include descriptions when there is enough information to make identification possible. If you have any information about these crimes, call the Wilkens Police Station at 410-887-0872. Edmondson Avenue, 6100 block, 6:10 p.m. Dec. 19. Attempt to steal TV from house while resident was home failed. Holmes Avenue, unit block, 8:26 p.m. Dec. 16. Door handle broken during attempt to break into house through rear patio door.

A burglar ran from the home of a woman when she threatened to call police Friday, Anne Arundel County police said. Police said the woman told them she was awakened shortly before 11 p.m. Friday in the bedroom of her home in the 7900 block of Liberty Circle, Pasadena. The woman told police she was assaulted but broke free from the assailant. When she told her attacker that she would call police, he fled, police said. Police said there was no obvious sign of a break-in and the woman was not seriously hurt.

The following is compiled from police reports. The Howard County Times includes descriptions of perpetrators only when the description makes identification possible. Baltimore National Pike, 8800 block, 6:28 p.m. Nov. 27. Man drove to Triangle Liquors in white box truck and blocked view of business. Man exited the truck carrying box. Large rock in box used to smash front door. Cash, cigarettes and other unknown items stolen. Man wearing mask, jacket, white work gloves, light colored pants and brown work boots.

Three Edgewood area schools were locked down for about an hour Wednesday afternoon while police searched for a man who was reported trying to break into a home in the area. Around 1:20 p.m., a resident in the 200 block of Oak Street was walking out the back of his residence when he confronted a black man in his 20s, with a thin build and wearing a black shirt and blue jeans, according to Edward Hopkins, spokesman for the Harford County Sheriff's Office. The resident said the man had entered the rear to the resident's home in an apparent attempted burglary, Hopkins said.